Butter oils when heated

[Silver]

Hi teachers.

My student wrote in his essay telling how to cook steak, one sentence is "Butter oils when heated". I wonder if oil could be used like this, I know it's a verb sometimes.

I wonder if the bold is natural.

 

[GreenWhiteBlue]

It is completely unnatural, and I have no idea what it is supposed to mean. When butter is heated it melts.

 

[Silver]

When butter is heated it melts.

He meant this.

Thank you so much, GWB.

 

[Barque]

I wonder if oil could be used like this, I know it's a verb sometimes.

To oil something is to put oil on something, or to grease something.

I suppose you meant butter liquifies and looks like oil when it melts, but you can't describe that by saying it "oils when heated".

 

[You little ripper!]

The butter behaves/acts like an oil when heated.

 

[Andygc]

The butter behaves/acts like an oil when heated.

But it doesn't. Not until the water content has evaporated.

 

[You little ripper!]

But it doesn't. Not until the water content has evaporated.

I didn’t say it work exactly the same as an oil, Andy. I said it works ‘like’ an oil; you can fry with it the same way you can oil. Whether the statement is correct or not isn’t the point, anyway; I was interpreting what I thought Silver’s student may have been trying to say.

Please don’t use these ( ) when you quote me., Andy. I find them extremely patronising.

Edited to change emoticon.

 

[Andygc]

Please don’t use these ( ) when you qu

I didn't.